Dylan Roof GUILTY, what should his Sentence be?

[tcjkbt]

This where it gets sticky being a genuine pro-(all) life person.

[Fear the Nation]

Six feet under.

[#99]

Why should I the taxpayer ( and every other) have to pay for this guy to sit in prison? He has no respect for innocent human life, therefore I beleive he doesn't need to experience life any longer.

[spindoc]

I think barbaric is all perspective. I think it more appropriate and humane to enact swift and final punishment when it's beyond a reasonable doubt.

[ggclfan]

He won't last long enough for either. He will end his own life or someone will do it for him.

 

I am against the death penalty. My guess his cell mates will eventually take him out OR will have so much FUN with him in prison that he will take his own life.

[TheDeuce]

I think barbaric is all perspective. I think it more appropriate and humane to enact swift and final punishment when it's beyond a reasonable doubt.

 

Agree 100%.

[Bengal Maniac]

Death Penalty, I could inject the stuff.

[sportsfan41]

Why should I the taxpayer ( and every other) have to pay for this guy to sit in prison? He has no respect for innocent human life, therefore I beleive he doesn't need to experience life any longer.

 

Because it is much much cheaper than putting him to death. I'm all for the death penalty but it costs way way too much due to the mandated automatic appeal process.

[woodsrider]

I think barbaric is all perspective. I think it more appropriate and humane to enact swift and final punishment when it's beyond a reasonable doubt.

You could definitely argue that tossing someone in our prison system is more barbaric than a quick death.

[jericho]

Guillotine.

[Fear the Nation]

Because it is much much cheaper than putting him to death. I'm all for the death penalty but it costs way way too much due to the mandated automatic appeal process.

 

Bullets are cheap.

[UKMustangFan]

Bullets are cheap.

 

Fortunately, that's not how the system works.

[UKMustangFan]

As of 2014, since 1973, 144 people (or 1.6%) of all death row inmates have been exonerated.

 

If we, as a country, did what many want and eliminate or greatly curtail the appeals process, that's a whole lot of innocent people we'd have murdered.

 

1.6% isn't many, but it's way too many when we're talking about killing innocent people. Surely, all can agree on that?

[TheDeuce]

As of 2014, since 1973, 144 people (or 1.6%) of all death row inmates have been exonerated.

 

If we, as a country, did what many want and eliminate or greatly curtail the appeals process, that's a whole lot of innocent people we'd have murdered.

 

1.6% isn't many, but it's way too many when we're talking about killing innocent people. Surely, all can agree on that?

 

I hear what you are saying. But there are instances when we know without a shadow of a doubt they are guilty of a particular crime. For those cases, it's absolutely appropriate.

[UKMustangFan]

I hear what you are saying. But there are instances when we know without a shadow of a doubt they are guilty of a particular crime. For those cases, it's absolutely appropriate.

 

I get that, but we can't have different criteria for different instances. We can't just say, "yep, we're positive you did it, time to put a bullet through your skull and be done with it."

 

I'll also add that I believe almost everyone believed without a shadow of a doubt that every single person ever put on death row was guilty of the crime.